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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Ayn Rand
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
John Adams
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Samuel Johnson
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Chinese Proverb
I will maintain it before the whole world.
Moliere
What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one... There is only me as a link.
Eduardo Chillida
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Proverb
